"""U.S. troops led the investigation of the site of a suicide car bombing and a gunfight near the <a href=""""http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/world/asia/us-consulate-afghanistan-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2"""">U.S. consulate in Herat, Afghanistan</a>, on Friday, September 13. Taliban militants attacked the consulate using a car bomb and guns to battle security forces just outside the compound. An intercepted al Qaeda message led to the <a href=""""http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/04/politics/us-embassies-close/index.html"""">closing of 22 embassies and consulates</a> across the Middle East and North Africa on August 4. Take a look at other attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in recent years."""
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